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  • HP looks to build apps into blades

    Nease said that ProCurve will add similar functionality in the future, but argued that applications such as firewalling, IP telephony and WAN optimisation currently need a processor to themselves. Nease added that the software developers signed up…
    27 January 2009
    Tags: Virtualised • Third Party • Bryan Betts • Blade • Data Centre • Programme

  • Aastra looks to merge mobile comms into office networks

    Aastra Technologies has upgraded its telephony system for the small to medium business sector, after adding fixed mobile convergence (FMC) functionality to the latest version of its IntelliGate telephone system.
    12 December 2008
    Tags: Mobile Phones • Handsets • Dedicated • Pbx • Gsm • Routing

  • Truphone shows off iPhone VoIP app

    In the company's view, adding communication possibilities to such sites represents the highly-sociable future of telephony. Truphone's client, launched in May 2006, already runs on Nokia's E-series Symbian handsets.Truphone is truly the mobile…
    27 September 2007
    Tags: Access Point • San Diego • Rates • Low Cost • John Dunn • Apple Iphone

  • Vista to get VoIP

    As a result, it is much cheaper than traditional analogue voice telephony and enables the convergence of voice and data traffic onto a single network.Ballmer said Microsoft will group VoIP, email, video-conferencing and Instant Messaging into a…
    08 November 2006
    Tags: Voip • Steve • Skype • Outlook • Instant Messaging • Ballmer

  • Enterprise wireless boom on horizon - for software companies

    E-Principles' Duke-Woolley added that IP telephony - routing voice calls inexpensively over IP networks - is also seeing more interest from enterprises. There are high traffic requirements for that as well, which adds value for operators…
    23 April 2004
    Tags: Predicted • Telephony • Analytics • Field • Matthew Broersma • Revenues

  • Wi-Fi comes to smartphones

    With the card and the software, smartphones can use a WLAN to transmit data and double as a cordless VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone when linked to a corporate IP telephony service, said Navi Miglani, SyChip's director of marketing…
    07 December 2003
    Tags: Handset • Peter Judge • Smartphones • Drivers • Expansion • Japanese

Latest Features

  • The benefits of 802.11s wireless mesh nets

    This is particularly useful in the enterprise and consumer entertainment applications, where mesh offers much promise.The current crop of 802.11 products work well for traditional applications that focus on Internet-centered activities such as…
    06 June 2008
    Tags: Node • Multimedia • Mesh • Formed • Suited • Nodes

  • Wanted: Convergence standard for 802.21

    This includes IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA), the CTIA/Wi-Fi joint effort to explore what's possible and required in converged solutions, and 802.11u.This level of technical interest and competition is a strong…
    30 April 2008
    Tags: Ieee • Layer • Convergence • Craig • Converged • Mathias

  • Office phones face new threats

    But as enterprises embrace a new generation of telephony based on IP (Internet Protocol), they're still buying desktop phones, users and analysts say.The new wave of IP wired sets comes as wireless options proliferate.
    06 June 2007
    Tags: Mobile Phones • Mobile Phone • Handsets • Stephen Lawson • Face • Las Vegas

  • Managing wireless as if it were wired

    The university, which is in Canada's New Brunswick province, had planned an IP telephony roll-out after upgrading its wired network last summer. Tighter integration will reduce the number of consoles and increase functionality.
    27 October 2006
    Tags: Service Providers • Centralised • Students • Priority • Campus • Network Management

  • VoIP systems: More network support burdens

    But more complexGartner analyst Eric Goodness noted that managing IP telephony systems "can be a bear," especially installations with more than 500 end users at multiple locations. It's the human aspect that makes it complex, not the technology…
    19 July 2006
    Tags: House • School • Locations • Complexity • District • Switched

  • Traffic optimisation takes centre stage in networking

    There's been little progress on IPv6 adoption, the US is still claiming it owns the Internet, wireless networking made little progress on fronts political or technical, and IP telephony remains hot - though whether VoIP's future lies in hardware…
    04 January 2006
    Tags: Acceleration • Tcp • Protocols • Optimisation • Wan • Progress
 

How-Tos

  • Case Study: University dumps Cisco VoIP for open source Asterisk

    Some organisations consider taking the plunge from big iron PBX platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that's nothing compared to what Sam Houston State University (SHSU) is doing. Besides the phones, Cisco gear still comprises a…
    20 September 2006
    Tags: Extensions • School • Pbx • Sip • Licensing • Nortel

  • Simple things you can do with VoIP

    While I would normally spell out three-letter acronyms (TLA), the reality is that the words that make up some telephony TLAs are lost to antiquity. Even with large organisations, one of my basic questions to be sure they understand telephony…
    10 August 2006
    Tags: Failure • Automatic • Pbx • Locations • Fire • Calling

  • Case Study: Hybrid path to convergence in Hong Kong university

    The IP PBX will initially provide 3,000 telephone extensions for users to access to applications, including unified messaging, wireless IP telephony and IP phones. This hybrid adoption enabled the university to spread its investment over time while…
    24 November 2005
    Tags: Qos • Unified • Pbx • Students • Nortel • Campus

  • Case Study: New York courts find security in IP video

    IP videocameras are taking over from closed-circuit TV, on a system that already supports IP telephony and lets prisoners talk to lawyers or appear in court via IP videoconferencing. Also supported is a 10,000-seat IP telephony network and more…
    19 August 2005
    Tags: Officials • Cameras • Buildings • Wifi • Lawyers • Nortel

  • How to … Scale up to enterprise class

    The trend is even more apparent with new technologies such as wireless LANs and IP telephony, which are available with the same core capabilities for both small and larger enterprises, Yankee Group analyst Christine Liebert says.
    29 July 2005
    Tags: Industries • Accounting • Storage Management • Outsourcing • Licenses • Consultancy

  • Case Study: Fashion designer gets hip to IP

    An opportune time for installing IP telephony is when legacy PBXs need replacing or data networks get overhauled. Because IP telephony has the advantage of a feature called extension mobility, Liz Claiborne saves on the cost of moving employees…
    30 January 2005
    Tags: Offices • Restore • Pbx • Affect • Agent • Flexibility

Reviews

  • Polycom SoundPoint IP 650 SIP desk phone

    Collectively, these units show that Polycom is serious about VoIP and SIP telephony. Boasting a large paper-white display, six line buttons, a speakerphone, headset jack, and SIP functionality, the IP 650 is meant for the executive desk.
    15 August 2007
    Tags: Boot • Custom • Sip • Article • Ftp • Handled

  • Intertex Surfinbird IX68 ADSL 2+ VOIP Wi-Fi gate

    A gateway with a full SIP server, the IX68 could provide a full IP telephony system for a small company - and deliver it over Wi-Fi as well. Employees can phone each other for free even from remote sites across the Internet, and cheap connectivity…
    12 January 2007
    Tags: Peter Judge • User Interface • Telephony • Dial • Telephone • Sip

  • Cisco ISR (Integrated Services Router) 2811

    The 2811 were looking at here ships with built-in virtual private network (VPN) hardware encryption and acceleration, firewall, IDS/IPS, NAT, QoS support and IP telephony functionality. In order to test the IP telephony functionality we attached…
    08 June 2005
    Tags: Qos • Utilisation • Branch • Gui • Module • Slots

  • WildPackets EtherPeek VX

    Nothing new here, then - the novel bits are in the new tab that's appeared, labelled "VoIP", which provides the low-level IP telephony functions. EtherPeek VX, as the new release is called, is aimed specifically at managers of voice-over-IP (VoIP…
    26 October 2004
    Tags: Screens • Capture • Telephony • Packets • Split • Gui

White Papers

  • An Open Approach to Advanced Messaging

    An open approach to IP telephony applications, running alongside your TDM and IP PBXs, has the power to change how your business communicates. One of the great promises of IP telephony, and the standards around it like SIP, is that you can now…
    06 August 2007
    Tags: Unified • Telephony • Pbx • Complexity • Remotely • Converged

  • An Open Approach to Advanced Messaging

    However, some organisations, desiring to deploy best-in-class functionality for their telephony applications in a way that gave them flexibility to purchase systems from multiple vendors and in a way that provided leverage of their internal…
    10 July 2007
    Tags: Architectures • Telephony • Dedicated • Interfaces • Leverage • Pbx

  • Cisco IPv6 Solutions

    The current IP address space is unable to satisfy the potential huge increase in the number of users or the geographical needs of the Internet expansion, let alone the requirements of emerging applications such as Internet-enabled wireless devices…
    01 March 2007
    Tags: Requirements • Addresses • Appliances • Enable • Globally • Bits

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